{"id":17447,"date":"2014-03-10T12:00:07","date_gmt":"2014-03-10T17:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/?p=17447"},"modified":"2014-03-10T01:08:01","modified_gmt":"2014-03-10T06:08:01","slug":"acclaimed-journalist-soledad-obrien-to-speak-at-apsu-unity-event-march-25th","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/2014\/03\/10\/acclaimed-journalist-soledad-obrien-to-speak-at-apsu-unity-event-march-25th\/","title":{"rendered":"Acclaimed journalist Soledad O’Brien to speak at APSU Unity event March 25th"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"AustinClarksville, TN<\/strong> – The award-winning broadcast journalist Soledad O\u2019Brien doesn\u2019t shy away from difficult subjects. Her reporting on Haitian orphanages following a massive earthquake in that country earned her an Emmy, and her work for CNN during Hurricane Katrina brought her and the network a George Foster Peabody Award.<\/p>\n

At 7:00pm on March 25th, O\u2019Brien will speak at the Memorial Health Gym (Red Barn) on the Austin Peay State University campus as part of the annual Student Affairs Unity Celebration. O\u2019Brien will deliver a speech titled \u201cDiversity: On TV, Behind the Scenes and In Our Lives.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"Soledad<\/a>The event is free and open to the public, and sponsored by Student Affairs Programs, the APSU Diversity Task Force, the Wilbur N. Daniel African American Cultural Center, Student Life and Engagement and Student Transitions.<\/p>\n

In 2010, O\u2019Brien used her reporting skills to tackle another challenging topic \u2013 her own personal story as a minority journalist working in America \u2013 with her memoir, \u201cThe Next Big Story: My Journey Through the Land of Possibilities.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI began life as the child of a mixed-race marriage growing up in a white suburb, treated sometimes as a creature of bad circumstances,\u201d she writes in the introduction. \u201cMy immigrant parents made sure I had the potential to capture my American dream anyway. I was handed a life of possibilities.\u201d<\/p>\n

O\u2019Brien is a graduate of Harvard University and former anchor for the NBC program \u201cWeekend Today.\u201d In addition to reporting for CNN, she developed the popular documentary series \u201cBlack in America,\u201d and later \u201cLatino in America,\u201d for the network. In 2013, she joined HBO\u2019s \u201cReal Sports with Bryant Gumble.\u201d<\/p>\n

Her documentary \u201cLatino in America 2\u201d won the Cine Award, and she was previously named journalist of the year by the National Association of Black Journalists. Newsweek also named her to its list of \u201c10 People Who Make America Great.\u201d<\/p>\n

O\u2019Brien is a Distinguished Fellow at Harvard University, and she was recently appointed to the Board of Directors of the foundation for the National Archives.<\/p>\n

This semester, APSU freshmen are reading her acclaimed book as part of the Spring Peay Read.<\/p>\n

For more information about O\u2019Brien or the Unity Celebration, call the APSU Office of Student Affairs at 931.221.7341.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Clarksville, TN – The award-winning broadcast journalist Soledad O\u2019Brien doesn\u2019t shy away from difficult subjects. Her reporting on Haitian orphanages following a massive earthquake in that country earned her an Emmy, and her work for CNN during Hurricane Katrina brought her and the network a George Foster Peabody Award. At 7:00pm on March 25th, O\u2019Brien […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[5],"tags":[23,22230,10978,6271,10977,17732,6671,262,512,825,4523,22228,22229,6272,1243,16261,12867,22231,22227],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4xGYI-4xp","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17447"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17447"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17447\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17448,"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17447\/revisions\/17448"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17447"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17447"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17447"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}